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Megan Hall

Research Assistant I

Megan graduated from Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University with a B.S. in Psychology and a B.S. in Anthropology in 2022, where she was involved in research in social psychology and well-being. Megan spent one year at the Translational Genomics Research Institute as an Associate Bioinformatician, where she worked on characterizing RNA in biofluids across different neurological disorders. She currently works with magnetoencephalography (MEG) data, submillimeter MRI, and neuropsychological assessment to better understand cognitive aging at the DICoN Lab. In the future, she hopes to pursue a PhD in Clinical Psychology and focus on understanding the impact of contextual factors on the brain and their cumulative impact on cognitive aging.

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Research Projects

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Neuroimaging and Neuropsychological Assessment

I currently work with neuroimaging data (magnetoencephalography and structural MRI) and neuropsychological assessment to better understand cognitive aging.

Statistical Analysis Data Collection Scientific Writing Neuroscience Neuroimaging Psychology Neuropsychological Assessment

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Social and Personality Psychology

My undergraduate honors thesis was in social and personality psychology. I collected empirical data to test whether viewing nature photos would result in less negative affect compared to viewing social media, and if this would potentially work as an intervention for negative effects of social media.

Statistical Analysis Data Collection Scientific Writing Open Science Psychology

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Transcriptomics, Genomics, and Neurological Disease

I began learning about bioinformatics through the Helios Scholars program, an eight-week program that led to the completion of a project. Afterwards, I continued research in Neurogenomics, looking at the transcriptome, sparsity of biofluids, and looking into neurological disorders.

Transposable Elements Biofluids Transcriptomics STAR R Jinja2 Bioconductor Parkinson's Disease Alzheimer's Disease Schizophrenia

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Cultural and International Psychology

I used longitudinal data collected before and after the COVID-19 pandemic to examine the relationship between hope, the future self, and familism; realizing that I was interested in culture, I joined APA's Division 52 for Global Psychology, where I currently help advance research and advocacy related to global health and health equity.

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